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Not promising: link-in-bio / bento personal pages. You can max out PH votes, but users just won't pay.
Closed Inspiring (counter-case) · Real demand, very weak willingness to pay First spotted 2026-11-01 · Last updated 2026-11-02
- Status
- Closed (don't follow: own.page maxed out PH but only converted to about $480 MRR, and apart from one six-year-old product, nearly every peer is at zero)
- Why this is written up
- With Bento.me shutting down, the spot looks open and PH will vote for it. But own.page ran a textbook launch (eight months of build-in-public, daily #2, 2,000 signups) and still only converted to about $480 MRR. The problem isn't the product, it's that users won't pay; the free tier also brings content moderation, abuse and infrastructure costs.
- Confidence
- High. Conditions that would overturn this (when it becomes buildable for small teams): own.page or a similar new product takes a vertical audience past $3k MRR; or Linktree raises prices sharply or drops its free tier, pushing out a group of high-willingness-to-pay users.
Evidence
Grouped by store. Each group starts with the charts that can be graphed (real curves, data dates below the chart), then the scanner's original notes and source links.
Indie product revenue (TrustMRR)2 evidence · 4 products with curves
Liinks liinks.co
TrustMRR · 30-day revenue $31,217 (-2%) · MRR $31,720 · 5,545 subscriptions
2025-11 → 2026-11 (13 pts). Light bars = current month, not yet complete
Data 2026-09-29 → 2026-11-06 (39 days, 39 observations). Single-day swings are big, so look at the trend in the monthly breakdown above.
TrustMRR · 30-day revenue $223 (-30%) · MRR $152 · 8 subscriptions
2026-08 → 2026-11 (4 pts). Light bars = current month, not yet complete
Data 2026-09-29 → 2026-11-06 (39 days, 39 observations). Single-day swings are big, so look at the trend in the monthly breakdown above.
Flaem flaem.co
TrustMRR · 30-day revenue $90 (-10%) · MRR $90 · 8 subscriptions
2025-11 → 2026-10 (12 points)
Data 2026-09-29 → 2026-11-06 (39 days, 39 observations). Single-day swings are big, so look at the trend in the monthly breakdown above.
Linkero linke.ro
TrustMRR · 30-day revenue $88 (-55%) · MRR $114 · 15 subscriptions
2025-11 → 2026-11 (13 pts). Light bars = current month, not yet complete
Data 2026-09-29 → 2026-11-06 (39 days, 39 observations). Single-day swings are big, so look at the trend in the monthly breakdown above.
- indie (11-02 check): own.page (own.page) MRR $476, 62 subscriptions, $362 in 30 days; month by month May (launch month) $246 → June $749 → August $1,287 → September $331 → October $386, back to pre-launch levels. The old Austrian Stripe account (own-page-flexco) still has 6 subscriptions, $39 MRR.
- indie (11-02 check, full-text search for the first 25 link-in-bio results): apart from Liinks (liinks.co, MRR $31,516, 5,502 subscriptions, six years old), the top is Linkie at MRR $353, followed by Taap.bio $171, Flaem (flaem.co) $115, Linkero (linke.ro) $114, and most of the rest around $0.
Product Hunt2 pieces of evidence
- PH (2026-05-25): own.page 640 votes (517 today), daily chart #2, weekly chart #3, 88 comments. The founder's retrospective says 2,021 signups in 22 days after launch, versus 62–63 subscriptions now, implying about 0.6% conversion (inferred from signups); the site claims 11,000+ users.
- PH (since 2026-05): 134 link-in-bio / bento launches, only 2 featured; own.page is the only one to pass 100 votes.
Other sources (official sites, press releases, web pages) 1 pieces of evidence
- Web (own.page blog 2026-01-28 / founder on X 10-30): the category leader Bento.me shut down earlier this year; the founder 10-30 said that because people build policy-violating pages on the free plan, they are seriously considering dropping it.
Already doing it
Linktree, Liinks, own.page, Linkie, Taap.bio, Flaem, Linkero; Bento.me has shut down.
In our product dossiers: own.page
The hardest step
Give users a reason to pay. The free tier is enough; Pro mostly adds a custom domain.
Who it's for
Don't build a generic version. If you do, pick a vertical audience that can pay $20+/month (freelancers taking bookings, coaches scheduling sessions, bands selling tickets) and turn the page into a business card with payments and booking (inferred build advice).
Should every product builder know this?
Yes. This is the cleanest example of "PH votes and signups do not equal payments".
Change log
2026-11-02
Backfill check: own.page MRR $484 / 63 subs → $476 / 62,30 days $362 unchanged; the similar Linkie MRR is $353, slightly above the report's "$0–344" range ceiling. Conclusion unchanged.
2026-11-01
First recorded (backfill: from "Product Hunt roundup v1" 4.2 item 2, 3.9 section, ph-dossiers/own-page.md, "Stringers" section 4, data as of 2026-11-01).
Original: Scanner opportunity library #082 (updated daily, 06:00); this page was generated on the 2026-11-08 edition.